In article <4c782d26.6040...@wxs.nl>, Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> wrote:
> On 27-8-2010 8:17, Nicola wrote: > > In article > > <aanlktimbrxn-yhfa9bqyrejmcfuyehqxr-+ix6ne5...@mail.gmail.com>, > > Mojca Miklavec<mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> TEXMFCACHE is not used by MKII (neither in pdfTeX nor in XeTeX). > > > > Right. I have tried > > > > unset TEXMFCACHE > > texexec hello.tex > > > > in the command line and it just runs texexec (as expected). Sorry, my mistake. If I unset TEXMFCACHE, then mtxrun is run also from the command line and the behaviour is consistent with what happens from TeXShop - which, in turn, is consistent with what Hans explains below. > we used to have texmfstart as script runner (all scripts are located and > started by a runner which is faster than using some kpse locator esp > when having nested runs as with metafun in mkii) > > so, texexec used to be > > texmfstart texexec > > however, nowadays mtxrun is the runner and it replaces texmfstart for > mkii as well and in order to do this, it needs the file database and > that one ends up in the cache so even for mkii there is a cache needed > (when I'm in the mood I'll check the lua texutil variant in which case > we can also kick out ruby which is currently only needed for mkii) > > Hans Everything is clear now. Thank you! Nicola ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
